Did you sow any seeds this year?

Did you hope they would grow into a flowers? or vegetables? or even a tree?

Jesus loved seeds and told stories about them to help people understand what God's kingdom was like.

A farmer scattered seeds all over the ground hoping they would grow. Some didn't because the ground was too hard, because there wasn't enough water, because the weeds grew faster or because the birds enjoyed them.

But the seed in the best earth grew into a bumper crop.

As the farmer hoped, this seed grew ripe and ready for harvest!

Happy Harvest

Autumn air

Ripe and ready

Veggies and fruit

Earth

Sunshine and showers

Thank you

Gustav Holst wrote music for 7 planets. Can you tell which picture matches which planet?

1. Jupiter
2. Mars
3. Mercury
4. Neptune
5. Saturn
6. Uranus
7. Venus

Answer below.

Hanworth: Youth Club Fridays 4.30pm

East Molesey: Alight 7th and 21st September 4.30-5.30pm

Sunbury: Aloud 7th and 21st September 7.00-8.00pm

Sunbury: Still Louder 7th and 21st September 8.00-9.00pm

Hampton: All Age Worship 9th September 10.30am

Teddington: All Age & Parade for Harvest 23rd September 9.30am

East Molesey: All Age and Parade for Harvest 23rd September 10.30am

Sunbury: All Age and Parade for Harvest 23rd September 10.30am

Hanworth: Harvest 30th September 11.00am

Hampton: Harvest Breakfast 7th October 9.15am

If you only had a small amount of electricity what you use it for? Lights when it goes dark? Charging a mobile phone?

In sunny countries like Malawi in central Africa, the sun's energy is being turned into electricity.

The charity 'All We Can' is helping farmers to use solar energy. Just a little of the electricity made by the sunlight can pump rainwater so that it trickles onto plant roots in community gardens.

Instead of a poor harvest, families have fruit and vegetables to eat and enough to sell too.

A little change brings a lot of hope.

Do you have a favourite planet?

Gustav Holst wrote some short musical pieces named after seven planets. He composed six pieces to be played on two pianos while the seventh was played on the organ.

Today the music is played by orchestras. It's 100 years since an orchestra first played all seven pieces together in a concert, at The Queens Hall in London with a choir of girls from the school where Holst taught. The audience were specially invited.

The Planets' is now a well know piece of music. The music for the planet Jupiter is even used as the tune to a hymn: 'I vow to thee my country'.

Holst's favourite piece was Saturn. Have you heard 'The Planets'?

Where do planets go to study?

Univers-ity

Why did the gardener plant a light bulb?

To grow a power plant!

Solar oven

Make a solar oven and use sunlight to heat food.

• Box with lid eg shoe box or pizza box
• scissors
• spoon
• sellotape
• aluminium foil
• cling wrap
• bowl
• chocolate
• fruit pieces or raisins or marshmallows
• sunshine
• patience

Cover the inside of the box and lid with foil.

Break up the chocolate and place in a bowl.

Place the bowl in the box.

Cover the open top of the box with cling wrap.

Place outdoors in direct sunlight.

Prop the lid open to reflect sunshine.

Tip: Around midday, when the sun is strongest is the best time.

Patiently wait until the sun has melted the chocolate.

Tip: Stir with a spoon to tell whether it has melted or not.

Tip: The bowl can get hot, use oven gloves to take the bowl out of the oven.

Dip the fruit pieces or marshmallows in the chocolate or mix in raisins.

Enjoy the taste of sun melted chocolate.

Which planet answers

Holst's music mentions these planets.

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